The song is called BONNY PORTMORE!
[ahem]
Duncan is playing oneupmanship with a competitor in an antiques shop, and winning, when he discovers the Celtic bracelet he had given Debra Campbell in 1618 in Glenfinnan, Scotland. He and Debra were in love, though she was promised in marriage to his cousin Robert, whom he killed when Robert challenged him in a jealous fury. Debra died in a freak accident, though the church called it suicide, and Duncan buried the bracelet with her.
Duncan pays an outrageous sum for the bracelet and goes off to Glenfinnan to find Debra's grave so he can restore the bracelet to its place. He is confronted on the MacLeod family plot by the current guardian of the MacLeod heritage, Rachel MacLeod, who assumes that Duncan is up to no good. Against all odds, this remarkably hospitable innkeeper just happens to have rooms for Joe and Mac.
Mac goes in search of Debra's hidden grave, and is found by Rachel who assumes he is robbing the grave. Then she assumes he is guilty of some murders in the area. The real grave robber is an Immortal named Kanwulf, who killed Mac's adoptive father in 1624, and he is now back in the area, posing as a Catholic priest (Father Laird, murdered by Kanwulf, of course) and searching for the axe given to him by Loki, taken away from him by Duncan when Duncan killed, but did not behead him, in vengeance for his father.
His katana having been taken away for examination in the local murders, Duncan is forced to claim the MacLeod sword from the inn, to do battle with Kanwulf. He returns Kanwulf's axe to him, telling him that he must fight to keep it. They join battle, axe to sword. Duncan wins. Big Quickening.
Mac returns the sword to its place in the inn. Rachel confesses that she now believes Mac is a good guy and is welcome in Glenfinnan. Duncan reclaims his katana and leaves, taking time to do a very pretty kata next to a castle as the camera circles overhead, suspended no doubt from the raven who kept appearing throughout the episode.
Questions:
1. We've had murders in Glenfinnan. Something's afoot! Duncan MacLeod appears. The good Father Laird is killed. Duncan MacLeod leaves. Wouldn't there have been questions about the death/disappearance of Father Laird? No one knew he was Kanwulf.
2. At the graveside, Father Laird tells Rachel that there is good in all people. Rachel replies, "If that were true, we wouldn't be here today." Most sensible thing anyone has ever said on such an occasion. Anyone else notice? Anyone agree? Disagree?
3. Is that, or is that not, the ugliest bracelet anyone ever overpaid for? And Duncan bought it twice. I suppose it was sentiment that kept him from just leaving the ugly thing with the antiques dealer and going to Tiffany's to buy a nice diamond bracelet to replace it with. It wasn't taste. Sentiment. Even dead, I'd go for diamonds. Tell Duncan when I'm gone.
4. Duncan really looked good in this episode. The hair, the pants, the kilt, the hair. His voice was rather tentative in the flashbacks, no doubt evocative of his youth. The hair. Debra looked a lot older than he did, a lot more mature, dabbing that moist cloth over her heaving bosom to cool her heated pulse. They could have used one more scene in this episode, couldn't they have?
5. They could have called this episode "Star-Crossed". The pairing of Duncan and Debra, against the opposition of their families and her promised husband, would have made it an excellent title. But then we'd have to think of another title for the tale in which Fitzcairn was killed. Name it.